EVENING POST'S outstanding sports coverage has received more recognition.

We won the "Best Sports Pages" category at the Guardian Media Group's Regional Press awards.

The judges gave us top marks for demonstrating how to select and project the best sports coverage.

They awarded us first place ahead of the Manchester Evening News and Aldershot News.

The Post also took the award for "Best Use of Colour".

Our coverage - spread over between 50 and 60 pages a week - is by far the best as only the Post covers the WHOLE of the sporting scene in the Reading and Berkshire area.

Sports editor David Wright received the trophy from Bob Phillis, chief executive of GMG, in the legends' lounge at Manchester City FC's Hall of Fame.

"I collected the award, but as Jonny Wilkinson has said so often in recent weeks, it is very much a team effort," David said.

"But it is just not the Post's sports team who deserves the credit. We rely heavily on freelances, club press officers and officials for providing us with copy each week, and they deserve a lot of credit for putting us at No. 1."